muller

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An implement of stone or other hard substance used as a pestle to grind paints or drugs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The grinder in an amalgamating-pan, or any similar form of pulverizing and amalgamating apparatus.
2. n. An implement of stone or glass with which paints are ground by hand.
3. n. One who mulls wine, cider, etc.
4. n. A vessel in which wine or other liquor is mulled.
5. n. A prehistoric stone implement, so called because supposed to have been used for grinding grain. See the extract.

Wiktionary

1. v. UK To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).
2. n. art A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paint.
3. n. metallurgy A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, mulls.
2. n. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
3. n. A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
2. n. German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
3. n. a vessel in which wine is mulled
4. n. Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
5. n. a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
6. n. British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
7. n. United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
8. n. a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
9. n. Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)